From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-06-10T23:07:12+09:00
Subject: Re: How to take password from user

On Jun 9, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> hmmm... it's probably still in memory for a while unless there is  
> an explicit
> method to clear it.  some password libs have this feature.

Would something like the following be an improvement, do you think?

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w

def fetch_password
     pass = ""
     pass << "password"
     pass
ensure
     pass = nil
end

p fetch_password    # => "password"

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James Edward Gray II